The Gamification of Learning and Instruction discussed on Business901 Podcast

July 31, 2012 - PRLog -- Dr. Karl Kapp, author of The Gamification of Learning and Instruction was my guest on the Business901 podcast, Learning with Gamification. Host Dager says, " If you need an introduction, or maybe you are ready to take the next step and gamify a few engagement strategies or your training. This podcast and transcription are a great place to start."

Karl Kapp is a professor of instructional technology at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. He teaches a variety of courses to include game design and how to design learning courses and environments, Additionally, as the assistant director of Bloomsburg’s acclaimed Institute for Interactive Technologies (IIT), Dr. Kapp helps government, corporate, and non-profit organizations leverage learning technologies for employee productivity and organizational profitability. In his spare time, he has authored or co-authored four books on the convergence of learning and technology with his latest being The Gamification of Learning and Instruction.

You can listen to the podcast, Learning with Gamification ( http://business901.com/blog1/learning-with-gamification/ ) or download the podcast from the Business901 Itunes store. The Business901 Podcast offers visitors the opportunity to listen to current business topics such as discussions on Lean, Design Thinking, Service Design, Six Sigma and Marketing.

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About Business901 (http://business901.com):provides direction in areas such as Lean Marketing and Achieving Expert Status. Joe Dager is president of Business901, a firm specializing in bringing the continuous improvement process to the sales and marketing arena.  He takes his process thinking of over thirty years in marketing within a wide variety of industries and applies it through Lean Marketing Concepts.

Joe is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and has participated with companies involved in retail, manufacturing, software and professional services along their Quality Journey. In these companies, Joe developed and implemented sales and marketing strategies. Always being a process thinker, he attached Lean to the way of implementing sales and marketing and has advanced those practices through Design Thinking and Service Design concepts. The Business901 Blog and Podcast include many leading edge thinkers and been featured numerous times for its contributions to the Bloomberg’s Business Week Exchange. Joe has authored four books with the most recent published this year, The Lean Engagement Team.